Re: Next steps forward?

funny :
<litestep-HzvBz7w1J3cIFlVeWT/[email protected]>:
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my message at the end...

On 8/13/07, Antoine W. Campagna <AntoineW-/[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 8/13/07, Roy Gathercoal <[email protected]> wrote:
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Wendy, I thank you for the compliment but no, I don't want to be
> > president. Am enjoying life without a bullseye painted
> > on my back. . .("Hell of a birthmark, eh?")
> >
> > > (And yes, I know I haven't gotten back with the problems I've had with
> > LS on
> > > Vista - work and life and kids going back to school...I don't have the
> > > luxury to have my computer acting wonky for an extended period of
> > time.)
> > >
> > > ~Wendy Harlow
> > > Tonsei-rs
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> Dude, you write long texts. But it's
> good suff, quite inspiring. You almost got me quitting my job and devoting myself to improving and promoting LS, hehe.
> You should try politics or something.
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> I may have skipped a few lines of your message but I think you are quite
> right. If we want to share our goodness, we must be a bit more proactive.
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> LS has a great history behind it. I takes good ideas that come from Job's
> NextStep OS plus a few other shells and it has improvedover time to the
> beatiful design we have today.
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> LS is currently (and IMO has been for a few years) a stable
> platform that can be used to do many great things. I also believe this has been proven already by LDE(X) and many revolutionary themes.
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> LS no longer impresses the masses
> because not many people are looking for explorer replacement these days and
> there is much eye candy stuff available on the net. But no shell or
> eye candy app is as complete/powerful/polished as LS is. This
> should be advertised a bit more. We need something that will impress on its own but that let the people know that much more is available.
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> But LS is not for the masses. Yes, a neophyte can benefit from LS
> but the thing is that most computer users don't want to learn, they don't like to learn they just use the computer for a few simple things (web
> and mail) and don't care about anything else.
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> But the niche market is significant.
> Most graphic designers (that work on MSW), many developers, most hobbyists/modders, many gamers and others
> would be happy to have a LS based custom shell.
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> What I'll try to do is to contact my graphic designer friends and see if
> they can design a shell interface that I would then use as the basis for a
> new theme (all themes I make are either ugly or a ripoff of someone else's
> work). I am also available for module/core development/debugging.
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> Antoine
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